v0.1.0.Alpha.291
Major System Enhancements
Released July 16, 2026
Good afternoon! If you've been keeping an eye on StoryCodex recently, you might have noticed a lot of changes appearing over the past few days. We've made many improvements and features, including the new release notification mechanism you are seeing now. The overall goal of these recent changes is to expand the potential use of StoryCodex beyond authoring books. We have several more upcoming features in the pipeline that will make StoryCodex even more useful to a broader spectrum of users, such as D&D fans, game developers, etc.
Added
- Factions & Organizations - a way to track the guilds, houses, kingdoms, and orders of a world and who belongs to them. Non-RPG general authoring data, under the World nav group.
- Tags & custom taxonomy - Free-form tags to label and slice a collection across eight entities
- Recent-activity feed - A dashboard feed of recently created and edited records with quick jump-to links.
- Collaborator comments - Let collaborators leave notes or comments on any record.
- Quests and arcs with objectives (RPG) - Track quests with a giver, objectives, a reward, and a status per chapter, where the reward can be a title, skill, or item.
- Writing progress and goals - A per-book word-count target and running total, a daily writing streak, and progress bars on the dashboard.
- Series bible export - Export an entire collection (characters, places, relationships, timeline, and lore) as a single formatted Word or PDF series bible.
- Scene and beat board (kanban) - A per-book outline of scenes or beats that the author can drag to reorder, optionally seeded from a story-structure template such as Three-Act, Save the Cat, or the Hero Journey.
- Plot threads and storylines - Track subplots as threads, each with a name and a status (for example setup, developing, resolved), linked to the chapters where the thread is introduced, advanced, and paid off.
- Global search and command palette - A fast search across entity names and rich-text bodies within the active collection, reachable from a keyboard shortcut (for example Ctrl or Cmd plus K) and from the app bar.
- Wiki-style cross-links and backlinks - Allow any description or notes field to reference another record using a bracketed mention that renders as a link, and show a Mentioned-in / Appears-in panel on each detail page listing everywhere that record is referenced.
- Relationship graph visualization - An interactive graph of the cast where each node is a character (optionally colored by gender or race) and each edge is a relationship labeled with its type.
- Timeline and in-world chronology - A collection-scoped Event record (title, in-world date/time, related chapter, participant characters, and place) plus a visual timeline view of the story. Optionally a custom in-world Calendar (author-defined months and year length) so character ages and elapsed time can be computed.
- Beastiary and NPC Stat Blocks - Stat blocks for antagonists, monsters, and non-player characters.
- Character progression charts (RPG) - Line charts of a character stats and calculated resources across chapters and progressions.
- Inventory over time (RPG) - A chapter-by-chapter view of what a character possesses, showing items gained and lost across the story.
- Stat comparison and power-scaling (RPG) - Side-by-side stat sheets for two or more characters, or for one character at two different chapters.
- Place hierarchy and map pins - Give Place an optional parent so locations can nest (for example world, then region, then city), and let an author upload a map image and drop pins that link to places.
- Left navigation menu cleanup - Improved the left navigation menu behavior to reduce scrolling.
- Change history and revision log - A per-record history of edits, with optional snapshots of rich-text bodies so an author can view or restore a previous version.
- Skill and spell prerequisite trees (RPG) - Optional prerequisite links between skills and spells, rendered as a visual skill tree.